•THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1151 proportion of damage said goods may have sustained Given under my hand this [19 ~] day of July :J.825 In the District of San Felipe de Austin STEPHEN F. AusTIN [Rubric] Department of Texas District of San Felipe de Austjn This day personally appeared before me Stephen F Austin Judge of this Jurisdiction Samuel Sexton, Samuel M ,villiam and Elias R "'Wightman who took an oath well and truly to inspect the goods submitted to their inspection refered to in the petition of Keep and Groce and to assess the proportion of damage on said ·Goods and to do and perform the other duties required of them in the order of Judge Austin on the subject to the best of their abilities -S. F~ AuSTIN [Rubric] ·
JARED E. GnocE TO.HYDE AND ifonIT
·Brassos Texas July 19 th 1825
Messrs. HYDE & MERIT. • Doctor Imla Keep has just arrived from New Orleans with some goods-and let me have the greatest part of them for which I paid him-by crediting him for money that I placed in his hands to pur- chase some Articles for me. I likewise gave him Authority to receive for me a considerable .Amount of money-which he re- ceived, and made use of and has not returned me one cent after buying the goods of the Doctor and paying for them as above stated I found out he had not paid money for the goods-but got them on a credit, and made use of my name in getting them he was not authorized to do so-and he is a man that never will have it in his power to use my name in that way- And I was much surprised to see you had allowed him the liberty of acting so-with -you-for he had not my name on paper--except he·wrote it or got some one to do it. neither was he authorized either verbally or in any other manner whatever to use my name- it is true, about twelve months since I promised to give him a birth as an overseer on one ·of my plantations, on conditions-he would perform certain acts and come out last winter-but he has disappointed me in every case, and not come untill now, and now, without my money. If he had complied I would have employed him, and was to give him one tenth of the profits of sd plantation after all expenses were paid, he is now in- sisting on me to employ him, for he says he is anxious to make money to pay you and myself. • I have a right to find falt of all the confidence, I placed in him . , but was more displeased when I found·out·he was·tempering with 25067°-24-VOL 2, PT 2-10
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